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So Judas was fain to make an end of it, and summoned the whole people to rally for the siege. (1 Maccabees 6, 19)
But some of the defenders slipped out; and these, with traitors of Israelite stock to support them, (1 Maccabees 6, 21)
Angered by these tidings, the king sent for all his trusted friends, for his army captains and his commanders of horse; (1 Maccabees 6, 28)
Through Edom they marched, and invested Bethsura; long they held it besieged, and built engines to attack it, but these, by a brave sally, the defenders burned to ashes. (1 Maccabees 6, 31)
With the defenders of Bethsura he had made terms; yield up the city they must, so ill were they victualled for a siege, in a year when the land lay fallow;✻ (1 Maccabees 6, 49)
Only a few defenders were left in the holy place now; the rest, overtaken by famine, had dispersed to their homes. (1 Maccabees 6, 54)
So Lysias must betake himself to the king and his generals, with such words as these: Our plight grows daily worse; scant food is left us, and here is a fortress well defended; all the business of the realm claims our care. (1 Maccabees 6, 57)
What remains, but to make friendly advances, offer terms to the besieged and to all their countrymen? (1 Maccabees 6, 58)
And thus, in the royal presence, they defamed their own people: Here be Judas and his brethren have made away with all thy friends, and driven us out of our country! (1 Maccabees 7, 6)
Do but send some trusted agent to survey the scene of it, the havoc this man has wrought upon our own persons and upon the king’s domain; ay, and to punish his partisans, with all who comfort them. (1 Maccabees 7, 7)
Fair promises he made them, and swore they should take no harm, nor their friends neither; (1 Maccabees 7, 15)
from end to end of Juda he passed, executing vengeance on such as had left his cause, till they might take the field no longer. (1 Maccabees 7, 24)
